Tag: hankou
All the articles with the tag "hankou".
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Wuhan's Three Towns: Hankou, Wuchang, Hanyang
Hankou, Wuchang, and Hanyang aren't just districts: they're three different cities fused into one, each with its own personality.
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Jianghan Road: Wuhan's Open-Air Museum
Wuhan's most famous shopping street is also its best-preserved collection of early 20th-century architecture. A local walks you through.
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The Tea Port: Hankou Fueled the World
In the 1860s, Hankou was the largest tea port on Earth. Russian merchants moved millions of pounds through Wuhan to London and Moscow.
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The Wuchang Uprising: How an Empire Ended
On October 10, 1911, soldiers in Wuchang mutinied and accidentally toppled a dynasty. A local walks you through the streets where it happened.
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Wuhan's Lifang: Hankou's Vanishing Alleys
Before the towers, there were the lifang: red-brick alley neighborhoods. Hankou had 200. Fewer than 30 remain.